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Nate Wolff

@proffwolff

7 months

❌ I’m in a slough of despond ✅ I’m in a freshwater marsh of sadness

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

Everything everywhere all at once

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Nate Wolff

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1 month

I think it would be a nice gesture if Harris would let us know which tweets specifically convinced her.

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Nate Wolff

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1 month

As a scholar of Herman Melville I strongly believe our next VP should be someone with an animal nemesis.

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For the past few years I’ve not seen a turkey while hunting. Today they mock me.

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Nate Wolff

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The movie trope of hitmen wearing finely-tailored suits always seemed a little odd, but now I’ve seen a real live assassin and well

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Nate Wolff

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4 months

doomed whaling voyage

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question for men: what are your favourite things to do with other men?

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Nate Wolff

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2 months

Look I love Biden. Biden's a good guy. Long record of stupid obvious lies. Has always been quite racist. just me or is it creepy the way he talks about Obama. Very inconsistent on abortion. bad on immigration. Supported genocide in Gaza, boosted false narratives to silence dissen

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

pleased to announce I am now exclusively wearing the thom browne moby dick collection

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Nate Wolff

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2 months

This is what happens when you defund the humanities.

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2 months

There is a pissed off whale patrolling the waters of Portsmouth NH today. Head on swivel if you’re out there

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Nate Wolff

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2 months

Ok before any academics caption this some sht like "🛥️my summer research plans / 🐳the fall semester" I want to remind you that it is EXTREMELY dangerous to allegorize a whale.

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Nate Wolff

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7 months

i find it creepy that people on here love pale fire by vladimir nabovok. do people not realize its complexly metatextual structure raises vexing narratological and epistemological questions?

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Nate Wolff

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2 months

Historian here! [personal preference for center-right gerontocracy dressed up as analysis of the dangers of challenging it]

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

to be clear this is good actually

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

Cool if surprising that this line got approved.

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Nate Wolff

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5 months

when me and the fellas want that opaque and melancholy yet melodic vibe

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Nate Wolff

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5 months

I don't feel like this is helpful.

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Nate Wolff

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5 months

The truly tortured poets, the real sickos, don't think stuff like "my bf reminds me of a tattooed golden retriever." They think stuff like "what if you were grieving and then there was a weird bird"

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

INTERVIEWER: explain this gap in your resume WHITMAN: I was writing Leaves of Grass INTERVIEWER: I mean after 1855 WHITMAN: writing Leaves of Grass (1856) INTERVIEWER: ok but *after* WHITMAN: Leaves of Grass (1860) INTERVIEWER: let me guess... WHITMAN: then I was a sexy nurse

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Nate Wolff

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5 months

Always fun to remember that when Hawthorne writes about how his office job totally killed his creativity and will to live he was talking about a 3.5 hour work day.

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Nate Wolff

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9 months

who did this

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Nate Wolff

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4 months

Historian here! [embarrassing misinformed bootlicking apologia for the repressive state apparatus]

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Nate Wolff

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3 years

Moby-Dick and Bartleby take place in the same universe.

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Nate Wolff

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8 months

Ok some of this is just mean.

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

too much?

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Nate Wolff

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2 months

I’ve just learned that following the academic model, Joe Biden’s vacant position will be filled by a 1-year VAP (visiting assistant president). The pay is 35k and the candidate must relocate to rural Maine.

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Nate Wolff

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the Olympics are all “wow look what people can achieve!! Now watch some ads about how u should delegate thinking feeling and language to chatbots”

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

we must abolish the anthropocentrism of the “conference” in favor of more radical “assemblages” of nonhuman kin. However, they should still take place at a Marriott

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

Hard teaching day today. It's 80% of the final grade so some were happier than others.

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

wow, ok -- this makes a lot of sense

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Nate Wolff

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3 months

I’ll tell ye about a tour that was ruined. Aye, lad, ‘twas a world tour

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

wow

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Nate Wolff

@proffwolff

7 months

Whenever I see “ontological” I just ignore it and pretend the nearest noun has been italicized for emphasis.

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I don’t understand what ontological means and I’m tired of pretending I do

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Nate Wolff

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2 months

so what I'm hearing is Harris is on the hunt for a VP that embodies the terrible power of whiteness

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

students at commencement congratulated me in front of their parents on my bagel tweet. You don't recover from that

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what is y’all most liked tweet?

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Nate Wolff

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Dear colleagues, I hope this email finds you in summer's prelapsarian idyll. I write, however, with shameful knowledge of our impending fall:

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Nate Wolff

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3 years

CFP: Worlding Wordle How does Wordle make worlds? How might we think utopian horizons disclosed by synesthetic forms— rhythms of color shape text? Is there a literature of wor(l)d(l)ing? An ecology? Send abstracts, CV, and your second fav starting word after penis by March 1

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Nate Wolff

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4 years

It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom so serene, That a maiden there lived whom you may know Jolene Jolene Jolene;

paperhaus

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5 years

Happy birthday to Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton!

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

wait, what??

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

Well this sucks.

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

them: we need you to come to the meeting and just be NORMAL and PROFESSIONAL and *do not* make everything about moby-dick me:

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Nate Wolff

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3 years

I have a whole damn PhD and my mother wants the short answer.

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Nate Wolff

@proffwolff

2 years

Please don’t laugh at the idea of academia being a calling. I have told many times the inspiring story of the holy spirit asking me to make overcomplicated moby-dick jokes for ~12 people online; it is entirely possible it asked someone else to be an anti-union professor at Yale.

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

@jonathanbfine I’m a grieving architect. I hated every minute of my time in Venice.

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Nate Wolff

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I have been informed by the most humorless people in the world that possibly the decision was not made because of tweets, but that doesn't seem right to me because look at all the good tweets.

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Nate Wolff

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3 years

the unconscious is structured like a wordle

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

every NYE party has that one guy who instead of a chain of events sees a single catastrophe piling wreckage upon wreckage 🙈🤣

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

Incredible teaching moment today. Room absolutely surrounded by leaf blowers. Outside every window its own leaf blower. Student zooming in from 200miles away apologizes for noise on their end: it's leaf blowers. Leaf blower feedback loops. Regional variances in leaf blower timbre

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Nate Wolff

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5 months

I extremely relate to Ambrose Bierce's relentless cynicism about everything except the redemptive power of a good sauce.

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Nate Wolff

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3 years

@V21collective [Walt Whitman tries to tell a joke] A priest, rabbi, and minister walk into a bar, sailor-men, merchant-men, walk into a bar, Workmen and Workwomen! into a bar, Blacksmiths with grimed and hairy chests, the carpenter dressing his plank, president and prostitute walk into a b

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

still mad I got cut from that article

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

who did this

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Nate Wolff

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1 month

@tamitoraj she saved that man's LIFE 🥲

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Nate Wolff

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4 months

With respect to my favorite canadian bookstore with whom I have a parasocial relationship: no, this is too fukcd up

king's co-op bookstore

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perfection

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

Happy Birthday, Herman Melville. You had some experiences and wrote about them but you didn't just do an autofiction you got some WHALE FACTS and did some METAPHORS and REFERENCES and also MARITIME SEXUAL INNUENDOS 👑

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Nate Wolff

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6 months

The energy I bring to this site every day

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Nate Wolff

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3 months

menswear guy: rate my Melville conference fit

Robert Kubinec

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3 months

Can we get the menswear guy to do a thread on what academics should wear to conferences? How do we summon him?

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

"oh harumph Melville didn't 'love' Hawthorne he didn't 'really' 'want' 'him' to 'drop' 'germinous' 'seeds' in him..." STOP. The erotic intensity of the relationship can't be known definitively but his writing is shot thru w/ it. The urgent q is how much did he really hate a fish

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

who did this

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Nate Wolff

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11 months

RIP Nathaniel Hawthorne u would have loved this complicated roofline.

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Nate Wolff

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11 months

Captain of a doomed whaling vessel

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11 months

Name a job that allows you to travel and see the world more than being in academia

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

As children many Swedes watch the Muppets, but at some point learn that “Förvirrad Kock” (basically, confused / deranged cook) is “Swedish Chef” in English and it’s quite traumatic and makes them awkward about cooking for people. So imo a little empathy is in order.

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Nate Wolff

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10 months

hahaha_sickos.jpg

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Nate Wolff

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@jray129 @Tyler_A_Harper 💯 I'm just mocking the current crop of essays and tweets that adopt a tone of reluctantly criticizing an aging saint (even though I get rhetorically why some are doing this)

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Nate Wolff

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3 years

wow, relatable

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Nate Wolff

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@Bettie003 ?? if twitter isn't real life then how did our memes save democracy 🤔

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Nate Wolff

@proffwolff

2 years

mastodon sounds fine but me and my mushroom kin are connecting on a new social platform called THE UNIMAGINABLY VAST MYCORRHIZAL NETWORK PULSING BENEATH YOUR VERY FEET

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Nate Wolff

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3 months

this is the future posthumanists want

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Nate Wolff

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Benedict Anderson theorized that a nation is as it were an imagined community forged through the simultaneity of being briefly annoyed by a very loud noise from our phones

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Nate Wolff

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3 years

Wordle 216 1/6 !!!!!! 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The trick is to solve it on your phone in bed and then replay on laptop when you get up.

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Nate Wolff

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To accommodate diff learning styles I give students choice. read 100 pgs of Moby-Dick a day. Or make an animal your nemesis. Latter is NOT the “easy” option. I wanna see wounds, abandoned family. I better hear you curse god in the Shakespearean cadences of a salty Quaker dialect

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Nate Wolff

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7 months

Whyyyyy is my dept asking me to promote fall classes now? Respectfully, it is *FEBRUARY* Anyway. lfg.

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

what the? Did anybody else find this in their hotel room?

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Nate Wolff

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11 months

If psychoanalysis is fake how do you explain truck nutz?

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Nate Wolff

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@TakeoRiveraPhD Seinfeld episode where Jerry tries to remember new bipoc acronym

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

tfw I'm writing and hate my draft

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

Pleased to announce I did a lightly awkward social faux pas at this conference so have added it to the store of things I’ll remember for the rest of my life.

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Nate Wolff

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7 months

roses are red some whales are white if you can't find true love may I recommend spite

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

My bedside table

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Nate Wolff

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Dover Thrift design team must've been so psyched when they got to do Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper."

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

Planning a graduate seminar on theory of work in long 19th-c. US lit, with eye on presentist resonance to anti- / post-work politics, great resignation, etc. Draft syllabus below — thoughts? hmu w/ your fav primary texts, history, criticism, philosophy, concepts...? Thanks!!

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Nate Wolff

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7 months

job!

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Nate Wolff

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5 months

Some personal news!

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Nate Wolff

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3 months

uhhh Melville was profoundly partisan. He was aggressively on the side of dramatizing the tensions between putatively popular sovereignty and racial / extractive capitalism through weird guys, boats, and a uniquely malicious fish.

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Reasonable people may differ with me, but I'd argue the greatest writers of fiction & poetry have been apolitical--provided we define "political" as meaning "partisan." I don't think Joyce, Beckett, Faulkner, O'Connor, McCarthy, Stevens, Melville, et al had any use for politics.

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Nate Wolff

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3 years

One thing I don’t understand about plot of The Chair is that I would very much like to retire

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

I worry we’ve lost the true meaning of cyber monday.

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Nate Wolff

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who up re-upping they cruelly optimistic attachment to electoral democracy

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Nate Wolff

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The eclipse is a warning from god that literary studies has abandoned its proper method.

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass" (1855)

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Nate Wolff

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1 year

[herman Melville writing about chobani] There is a milky substance, a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business, but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe. It is ineffably oozy, stringy, and after a prolonged squeezing, a strange insan

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PEOPLE IT IS TIME TO START WRITING ABOUT YOGURT h/t @RonCharles

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Nate Wolff

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Fast Car is a classic, archetypal text of "cruel optimism." (because its lyrics dramatize damaging/sustaining attachments to the good life but also because everyone wrongly thinks they can sing it.)

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Nate Wolff

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Bartleby ass orangutan

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Nate Wolff

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It's so important we work together to catch this fish ❤️💪💪🪙🤑🍻 👨‍👨‍👦 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 author of this tweet swore vengeance on a brute that simply smote him from blindest instinct

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Nate Wolff

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2 years

Hey everyone -- quick reminder, the bookstore would like your fall 2022 book orders asap.

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Nate Wolff

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5 months

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses; a mini sabbatical or ‘adult gap year’ can be rejuvenating